[PATCH net-next v10 1/4] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit
From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Date: 2018-05-07 22:10:43
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, virtio core, virtio net driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang
This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address. VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY is defined as bit 62 as it is a device feature bit. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index f34794a76c4d..213fddc70fd0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c@@ -2999,7 +2999,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = { VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \ VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \ VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \ - VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX + VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY static unsigned int features[] = { VIRTNET_FEATURES,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index 5de6ed37695b..a3715a3224c1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ * Steering */ #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */ +#define VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY 62 /* Act as standby for another device + * with the same MAC. + */ #define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63 /* Device set linkspeed and duplex */ #ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
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